copyright 1961; Harper & Brothers publishers; "Young Readers Edition, Abridged"; hardbound with red and blue boards and gilt lettering; illustrations by Emil Weiss; very good conditon with unmarked pages; previous owner's sticker had been previously removed from half-title page; dust jacket in very good condition.
 
description -
Profiles in Courage is a 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States Senators. The book profiles senators who defied the opinions of their party and constituents to do what they felt was right and suffered severe criticism and losses in popularity because of their actions. It begins with a quote from Edmund Burke on the courage of the English statesman Charles James Fox, in his 1783 attack upon the tyranny of the East India Company in the House of Commons.